“New details show Congress and the intelligence agencies racing in the final weeks of the 2016 Presidential campaign to understand the scope of the Russian threat. But Democrats and Republicans who were privy to the classified briefings often saw the intelligence through a political prism, sparring over whether it could be construed as showing that the Russians were helping Trumpence Bannon.”

So far the only person who comes out looking intelligent in this carnival of ineptitude is Putin, and he didn’t even cover his tracks that well.